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qyron

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European guy, weird by default.

You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let's see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.

  • Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

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  • A company (Compal) in my country (Portugal) that has been making whole fruit juice since the 70's. If they made it any thicker, you could eat it with a fork.

    Spain and France also have off-brand manufacturers of this type of fruit drink. Germany could learn something

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • I find myself eager yet dreading my next visit to a gelaterie after knowing that.

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • You're right. And you put forward a good point: the ingredients itself have flavour, which most people just cover or ignore. Too much is as bad, if not worst, than not enough.

    My own national cuisine shares a few contact points with italian but I don't really agree with your point. There are many dishes where spices get very heavy handed but are usually layered and the end result is a symphony between all parts. The simplicy us, regardless, commendable. Any good dish relies on simplicity.

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • I have nothing against it. It's mild enough yet interesting enough to please nearly anyone and everyone.

    It never ceases to amaze me how being "vanilla" gained the other connotation it has.

    I've prepared my own extract and I can only say it vastly surpasses comercial ones. And as someone that enjoys cooking, I used it in nearly everything I could imagine, including savory sauces. It works. It should not, but it does.

    Bourbon doesn't really make my fancy but I know it is a well known pairing.

    It's that flavour/aroma that is nearly infallible.

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • It got out of fashion but many sweet recipes got their flavour from a wider range of spices, straight from the rack: nutmeg, mace, cloves, rose water, orange blossom water, orange peel powder, lemon peel powder, cummins, coriander... Even black pepper.

    Current day foods are mostly bland. It requires going to a country (or at least a restaurant from there) where spices are used generously in every dish to realize this.

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • Vanilla tastes exactly how it smells: sweet, pungent, with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Sugar takes care of that.

  • What does vanilla taste like?

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  • Some vanilla extract are also not vanilla but made from cloves. Weird but true. Don't know how they do the chemistry. It was put out in the open by a famous chef a few years back.

    What I can vouch for, personally, is making your own vanilla extract at home, using alcohol. Don't recommend vodka but I recognize it is a widely available and usually affordable alcohol; tried it and the end result was disappointing.

    To tie into your comment, I'd also consider cream crackers. Eat a couple first to establish a base line for your palate, then put a drop of extract on another and chew slowly

  • World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent

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  • I am all up for starving machine learning of new knowledge but I view this as the least friction path. Otherwise, if the machines try to brute force their entry, what harm can kt cause?

  • Classic rock

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  • Have another!

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • There is more commercial proximity between China and the EU than China and the US.

    The current taxation run is to curtail the online markets like AliExpress, Shein and Temu to flood the market with garbage. Shein got hit with their dumping practices very hard.

    Taxing the import of vehicles, when an industry already exists just makes sense. European automakers were sleeping on their job, granted, but the other option is to let them fail and surrender another industry to non-EU territories.

  • Lamb Chops

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  • That sounds really nice.

  • Lamb Chops

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  • Roasted potatoes, asparagus and perhaps artichoke hearts? Seems like a good combination.

    A side note: how big is the plate? It seems huge in the picture and the framing contributes to that impression.

  • Lamb Chops

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  • Don't provoke them.

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • All the luck on that!

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • Does anyone still knows how to play it?

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • I understood it has such. That is the kind of crap furniture that keeps people hostage and degrades their quality of life.

    Thank you for your kind words and I wish you the best as well.

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • Even synthetic wood can make good furniture nowadays, if one is willing to put in some work.

    I'm in the process of building a few bookshelves and we opted for OSB. Well sanded and varnished, it turns into an unusually solid material. And it takes a beating. I involved my kids in process and it has been a near little project.

    I just make the calculations for the parts I need and have them cut at a carpenter, that also sells me board. I bring everything home and do the finishing, which is the most expensive part.

    Next, I will go into solid wood. And into a more daunting project.

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • So that is what that little icon means. Thanks.

    I've seen tables like that very carefully split in two smaller ones. It took serious crafmanship but the end result retained the same "soul", pardon the expression.

  • Do you have or keep heirlooms?

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  • One of those old fashioned solid wood dining table for twelve?

    It's a shame. I wanted to make a solid wood table at some point in my life but four to six seatings will be more than enough.